Daily Search Forum Recap: November 16, 2017

Nov 16, 2017 - 4:00 pm 0 by

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

Search Engine Roundtable Stories:

  • Mozilla Drops Yahoo For Google As Default Search Provider In Firefox
    Three years ago, Mozilla dropped Google as the default search provider in their popular web browser, Firefox...
  • Google Messaging Feature Now Shows Wait Times
    When Google My Business first launched messaging within the platform, they said they would measure the response time and then show a notification to your customers who are about to message you about the typical wait time...
  • Google Maps To Launch Brand New Design
    Google announced they have redesigned Google Maps and will be rolling it out to users over the upcoming weeks across "all Google products that incorporate Google Maps, including the Assistant, Search, Earth, and Android Auto...
  • Google Tests New Version Of People Also Search For Box
    Google seems to be testing a small variation of the "people also search for" box in the Google search results. This one is a box below the search result snippets that lists out related queries to expand you search...
  • Chinua Achebe Google Logo For Nigerian Novelist 87th Birthday
    Today on Google's home page is a special Google logo, a Doodle, for the Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe. He was born on November 16, 1930 in Ogidi, Anambra and passed just a few years ago at the age of 82 on March 21, 2013 in Boston...
  • Wall Of Mailboxes At Google
    So at one of the Google offices they have these old fashion mailboxes, lots of them, hanging on a single wall. I am not sure why, if it is function or design or both - but I suspect it is not functio

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